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I came across this article re: Moses Cason while researching another subject --
The US steamer Newhern, Capt. McNulty, has just arrived from Pilatka bringing the distressful intelligence that seventeen white persons have recently been murdered. The particulars will be found below which were taken from the St. Augustine News and Herald of 21st inst-
From the St. Augustine Herald. ..
Indians. The mail of Wednesday brought us tidings of fiye more murders by the Indians in Columbia and Alachua counties, on the 14th and 15th inst. On the 14fth Messrs. William and Bryan Vansant, in company with Mr. A. Osteen, while, hunting were attacked by a party of thirty Indians, who shot Mr. W. Vansant from his horse. His brother dismounted and was wounded in the thigh, and Mr. Osteen escaped. On the same day five citizens went out to bring the dead. They found B. Vansant in the hammock and his skull broken with his own gun.
On the 15th the same party, it is believed, attacked the house of Mr. Moses Cason in Alachua county— killed his wife and infant child. Mr. Cason, though severely wounded, escaped with two of his children. They then proceeded to the house of Mrs. Douglas, a widow with a large family of children; but they escaped on hearing the firing and yells at Cason's. Her dwelling was burned and plundered of every thing she possessed. There being a collection of people at Sulphur Springs on Santafee, where the news was soon conveyed, five gentlemen hastened to the place of bloodshed; they had not gone more than a mile, when they were fired on, and Mr. Stafford was wounded in the right arm and side….
From the New York Spectator, Saturday afternoon, May 28, 1842
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